Listening: Entertainment

This week, we spoke a lot about different types of film and TV show. What is your favourite genre of film? Why do you like these kinds of films?

There are lots of articles and interviews you can listen to which discuss entertainment. Here is a 6 minute interview with Rowan Atkinson about Mr Bean : http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/163_entertainment_ex/page8.shtml which also contains some useful vocabulary. You can listen to the interview online, or download and save it, and you can follow the conversation using the audio script.

For a full list of similar listenings, click on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/archive_ent.shtml You don't have to listen to them all! Find something that interests you. It may be useful to listen to a couple of film reviews.

Here is a short lesson about films: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/multimedia/london/unit3/index.shtml
There are a couple of short conversations that you need to listen to. Practise the conversations with a partner.
Then there is a film review to read and some questions. Finally, you can listen to some common phrases used to describe films and practise your pronunciation.

Try the exercises and let me know what you think. Use the new vocabulary by writing a film review. Leave a comment below.